Sweet Life in the City

Our Easter morning started out a little on the stressful side. We were all ready to go to church so I thought I would get some pictures of the kids in front of our house. We took some pictures and then the kids went inside but I was still outside looking at some new blooms that were coming up in our front flower bed. Emma decides to open the front door as wide as she can and out runs Lucy. Lucy is really not a dog that tries to dart out the door every time it is open and I thought is she ever did run out she would run to our vehicle thinking she was going somewhere. Nope, that dog took off down the street. We are 4-5 houses off of a pretty busy road and I was bracing myself for what was about to happen because she was running right towards the busy road. She got to the end of our block and turned the corner. I am running after her in my Easter clothes and yelling like a crazy lady for her to stop. I would get close to her and then she would dart off again. She turned up another street ...

Wow! It has been am amazing, exhausting two weeks. I have been meaning to post for a while now, but I have been so busy and when I have had a minute to blog I have opted for resting. We closed on our house three weeks ago yesterday. All that stress I was doing over the extra money they were saying we needed at closing turned out to be nothing to worry about at all (I know, I know that is why it is useless to worry!). Our final amount we needed to bring to closing was over $4000 less than what we were told. The closing went smoothly (well, except our lawyer was 45 minutes late) and both lawyers were delighted how easily the closing went. Since we had some money left over we purchased a new bedroom suit for our room and we got new mattresses. We have had the same mattress for almost 15 years and trust me, it was not the best mattress when we purchased it 15 years ago. We have both been sleeping so much better and I am not sure if it is the mattress or we are at peace being out of that ap...